The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina on Wednesday disclosed that the bank will support the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) with $208 billion, as

Nigeria’s Senate has indicted the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) over an alleged diversion of N1,075,266,599.06, $2,301,329.54 and €196,257.42 by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). Apart from asking

President Muhammadu Buhari and some Northern governors met Wednesday at the State House, Abuja over the deteriorating security situation in the country. The meeting was said to have primarily centred

The Nigeria Guild of Editors and Nigeria Union of Journalists have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to call the Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed to order. In a statement

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Wednesday lamented the escalating incidence of petrol smuggling across Nigeria’s borders, which it put at a whopping 42 million litres per day. The

A week before the latest deadline to pass Nigeria’s long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), demands for big changes, including from community leaders seeking an increased share of revenues, could push

The Nigerian Army has denied claims it’s colluding with marauding bandits who have been responsible for various crimes and atrocities against Nigerians and the Nigerian state. The Army was reacting to a

Two South African brothers who ran a cryptocurrency investment platform called Africypt have vanished with $3.6 billion worth of bitcoin in what could potentially be the biggest cryptocurrency heist in history. The incident

Editors in Nigeria are criticizing current attempts to regulate the media as such move gives the impression that the federal government is out to crush its enemy. The Nigerian Guild

A Mauritanian court has jailed former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. This decision from the judge in charge of investigating alleged corruption charges comes days after the former president’s refusal

Heavy fighting has broken out in several areas in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray between rebels and federal troops, reports say. The rebel Tigray Defence Force (TDF) said it had

The ECOWAS Court of Justice has “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute

A Kenyan national faces up to a 30-year jail sentence, after pleading guilty to fraud conspiracy involving romance scams in the US, the justice department in Massachusetts has said. The

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has written the leadership of the country’s parliament to approve a supplementary budget of N895 billion ($2 billion). The country’s federal executive council had already approved

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Federal Government’s Team to engage with Twitter over the recent suspension of the operations of the microblogging and social networking service in the

The European Union on Monday lifted sanctions placed on Burundi after meetings between the EU ambassador to the country and the President of the Central African country. The announcement was made by Burundi’s presidency

The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has listed Nigeria and South Africa among nations being considered by Africa, in conjunction with the European Union (EU)